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1999 Jean Shepherd, writer/radio artist, ", In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, ", dies at 78
1997 Mark McGwire, is 4th to home run on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, and Cecil Fielder) 1996 Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas and Alabama) 1993 George Mickelson, Governor of South Dakota, and 7 others, die in a plane crash 1989 Mickey Leland, Representative-D-Texas 1979 - 1989, and 15 others die in plane crash in Ethiopia 1985 Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cincinnati Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez and Cesar Cedeno 1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters president, and 4 others convicted of bribery 1982 Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16) 1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott 1980 William R Tolbert, Jr., Liberian President and 27 others killed in coup 1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 1976 Chris Kenner, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others, dies 1971 U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons 1971 Federal grand jury indicts Reverend Philip Berrigan and 5 others, including a nun and 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger 1963 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy 1956 Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa 1954 John Kimmel, born in East Orange, New Jersey, John C. Kimmel, horse trainer, trained at University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, trained famous horses, Better Than Honour, Premium Tap, wins include Florida Derby, 2004, Pennsylvania Derby, 2007, among others 1952 Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew 1947 John C. Maxwell, born in Garden City, Michigan, evangelical Christian, author, pastor, speaker, leadership expert, wrote over 50 books on leadership, sold over 13 million copies including 'Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow' 1946 David Liebman, born in Brooklyn, New York, musician, rocker, saxaphonist, flautist, worked with Steve Swallow, Pete La Roca, played with Elvin Jones, Miles Davis's group, appeared on 'Big Fun' album, among others 1945 Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," and 10 others, hanged 1943 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others 1942 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress 1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death 1937 Karl Radek and 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge 1929 Chris Kenner, born in Kenner, near New Orleans, Louisiana, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others 1922 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin 1909 Jean Berger, born in Hamm, Germany, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, studied with Paris' Louis Aubert, taught at Middlebury College, University of Colorado at Boulder, among others 1895 Jose Marti and others leave New York City for invasion of Spanish Cuba 1893 Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud 1847 Governor Bent, 5 others in U.S. occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico 1830 Joseph Smith and 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, New York |
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